Ante Peterlić
Writer · 1936 – 2007
Ante Peterlić (18 May 1936 – 12 July 2007) was a Croatian film scholar, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his film Accidental Life (Croatian: Slucajni zivot, 1969), his debut feature film. Peterlić was a prominent young film critic, and a professor of film theory at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In the 1960s, he directed his first short TV drama, and was active as an assistant director in several feature films and documentaries, working also as a script doctor. First to hold Ph.D. in film studies in Yugoslavia, with prof. Vera Horvat-Pintarić serving as his thesis advisor, Peterlić wrote several books on theory and history of cinema.
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Movie10.0DocumentaryFilm The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Yugoslavian federal unit "Socialist Republic of Croatia". Through the period of 25 years, he appeared as actor in several co productions made in Croatia (David and Goliath, Tartars, Austerlitz) - acted in few Yugoslavian film (Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Nicola Tesla) and directed two of his own film: The Trial and The Deep. As a Hollywood maverick, in Croatia he often found his shelter. Through the never before seen archive materials and the interviews with the people who worked with him, directors of this film, in the 90th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his passing, reveal the other side of Orson Welles
MovieDocumentaryA short documentary about one of the most prominent Croatian actors of all time.
Ivica Vidović
2005